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Has Science Buried God?

Professors Richard Dawkins and John Lennox go head-to-head once again for another remarkable match of intellect. This time, the same two Oxford Professors who debated in Birmingham's 'God Delusion' Debate are at it again on their home turf at the site of the famed 1860 Evolution debate between Huxley and Wilberforce.

An enthralling topic for scientists, skeptics, and Christians for nearly 150 years, the answer to the question "Has Science Buried God?" has implications that reverberate throughout both public and private life.

Discussing an idea the BBC calls "as fierce as ever" in a manner The Spectator characterizes as "Gripping," this event is loaded with lively, entertaining, and thoughtful dialogue on one of the most important questions of our time.

Dawkins, voted by Europe’s Prospect Magazine as one of the world’s most important intellectuals, is regarded by many as the spokesman for the “New Atheism.” BBC has labeled him “Darwin’s Rottweiler.” He has written numerous best-sellers, including his recent book, The God Delusion. It is a no-holds-barred assault on religious faith generally, and Christianity specifically. According to Dawkins, one can deduce atheism from scientific study; indeed, he argues that it is the only viable choice.

Lennox, a popular Christian apologist and scientist, travels widely speaking on the interface between science and religion. Like Dawkins, he has dedicated his career to science, but he has arrived at very different conclusions. "It is the very nature of science that leads me to belief in God," he says. Lennox possesses doctorates from Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Wales. He has written a response to the notion that Science has exposed the Bible as obscurantist in a book titled God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?